Handbag



HANDBAG Filed oct. 15, 1952 M@ @ggf l Patented June 2, 1936 PATENT oFFl'cE HANDBAG William C. Hiering, Millburn Township, Essex County, N. J., assignor to J. E. Mergoth Company, Newark, N. J., a corporation of Delaware Application October 15, 1932, Serial No. 637,895

1 Claim.

bags, and more 'particularly to means for facilitating the attaching of bag covering material to hand bag frame members.

It has, heretofore, been the usual practice to attach `bag covering material to frame members by sewing, but such a method vobviously requires considerable time and greatly adds to the cost of manufacturingr a bag. However, certain devices have been also presented to eliminate the necessity of sewing, such devices comprising generally the crimping or clamping of the bag covering material directly in a channelled frame member. While such devices represent an improvement over the sewing method of attaching bag covering material to frame members, they are objectionable in that it is somewhat diflicult to satisfactorily and neatly crimp or clamp the covering material to all sections of a U-shaped frame member, and most frame members are of that shape.

It is an object of this invention to provide a device in which bag covering material is rst attached to an inlay, and the latter is then easily clinched into position in a channelled frame member by suitably spaced tabs on the frame members, thus obviating the necessity of exerting considerable force directly on the frame member itself in order to insure the secure holding of the bag covering material.

A further object is to provide an inlay of special design to which the bag covering material is attached,and a frame member having a downwardly directed ange along the longitudinal section thereof to cooperate with the inlay to hold the inlay stably in position during the process of clinching the inlay to the frame member.

These and other advantageous objects, which will later appear, are accomplished by the simple and practical construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and exhibited in theaccompanying drawing, forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of bag irame members and inlays embodying my inven- Figs. .2 and 3 are perspective views showing steps of inserting an inlay in a frame member, Fig. 4 is a perspective 'view of a modified form of the invention.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the manner in which bag covering material is carried in the inlay.

Referring to the drawing, there is shown a' pair of hingedly connected bag frame members 3 and This invention relates'to improvements in hand y 'of similar shape.- Each frame member is of the U-shaped channel type with the channel opening outwardly and laterally relative to the frame and hand bag. The frame member comprises an inner side wall 5 having an upper iiange 5 6 and a lower flange 1, saidflangesbeing at right angles to the side wall 5.4 On the longitudinal section A of the frame member, the upper iiange 6 is provided with a downwardly directed ange 8 parallel to the side wall. The lower ange 'l is 10 provided with a plurality of spaced tabs"9 having perforations II) to enable them to be easilyfbent upwardly for a purpose hereinafter explained.

The inlay is of U-shape to correspond to the shape of the frame member, and Ybag covering ma- 15 terial II is clamped or crimped between the walls I2 and I3 of the inlay. The leg portions of the inlay which fit into the legs B of the frame member have walls of equal height While the longitudinal section of the inlay has one wall I4 of greater 20 height than the outer wall I3.

In assembling the device, the wall It of the inlay is moved into position underneath the ange 8 as shown in Fig. 2, and the legs of the inlay are positioned in the legs B of the frame member. 25 It will be readily seen that the inlay is now stably held in position by the flange 8, and the tabs 9 can now be conveniently and easily bent upward to'r permanently secure the inlay to the frame member, and the operation can be performed With 30 greater speed than has heretofore been possible, thus lessening considerably the cost of labor in f assembling hand bags.

In Fig. 4 is shown a modied form of the invention in which the upper flange 6 of the frame 35 member is provided with a downturned flange I5 on the leg portions B as well as on the longitudinal section A. The inlay (see Fig. 5) is in sections, with each section having mitered ends to enable the formation oi square corners, and 4o having a wall I6 of greater width than the otherV wall I1. In assembling, the inlays are placed in the frame member and the tabs 9 are then bent upward to hold the inlay sections securely in the frame member.

An inlay with walls of equal width (see Fig. 5)

can be used satisfactorily in the frame member lshown in Fig. 4, in which case the lower edge of the downturned ange I5 is suiciently spaced from the upper edge of wall I8 to accommodate 50 the bag covering material at the same time tightly gripping the covering material. The iiange l5 l also serves as a means of ornamentation. Also, the longitudinal section and legs of an inlay having sides of equal width can be integral. 55

From the above description it will be seen that I have provided a simple and eiective device for greatly facilitating the attaching of'bag covering material to frame members.

While I have described the legs of the inlay as having walls of equal height, it is obvious that the legs may have one Wall of greater height than the other, so that wall i2 might be substantially a continuation of wall l, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention, of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including many modifications without departing from the general scope herein indicated andi denoted in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In a hand bag, a U-shaped metal frame member formed from sheet metal of uniform thickness. said frame member having an inner side wall provided with upper and lower flanges, the upper flange of the longitudinal section of the frame member having a downturned ange, an inlay of channel shaped construction and U-shaped to correspond to the shape of the frame member, the

leg portions of the inlay having walls of equal height, the longitudinal section of the inlay havf/ C. HIERING. 

